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Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: Sections 20 to 33, inclusive, are all technical amendments to the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act for more complete cross-reference. I wish to flag that section 21 is to amend or extend the family successor to include first cousins, great-nephews, great-nieces and great-grandchildren. I will introduce an amendment on Report Stage to include various levels of cousins to make sure that a...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: Over the last 12 to 18 months, there has been constant interaction between Deputy Naughten and me on this issue, which is an important unintended consequence of the legislation that was moved. When the legislation was drafted it included a reference to a first cousin, great-nephews, great-nieces and great-grandchildren. I discovered very quickly that a person's first cousin could be the...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: I will table the amendment on Report Stage. The provision was suggested by Deputy Cahill as well because he had come across similar cases. In order for a farmer, landowner or business owner to avail of the three-year cap, he or she must appoint a successor. The successor must be a member of his or her family. The successor does not have to be the person who will benefit from the...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: I honestly do not know. I suppose anybody can inherit if a property is left to them in a will. The new provision concerns appointing a successor to manage the holdings while a person is in a nursing home. First cousins, great-nieces, great-nephews and great grandchildren were the only persons included in the legislation whereas previously the provision had been more limited.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: Yes.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: I agree wholeheartedly with the Deputy. It was an unintended consequence of the legislation introduced two years ago but this will rectify it.

Select Committee on Health: Message to Dáil (12 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: I thank the Deputies for their views and look forward to working with them on progressing this legislation through the Dáil as quickly as possible.

Select Committee on Health: Message to Dáil (12 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: They have flagged the amendments.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Properties (11 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: This is a project that if the likes of it were in Dundalk or Drogheda, whereby a property was made available to the local authority, I have no doubt the Cathaoirleach Gníomhnach would stay hot on my heels until it was operationalised. It is one of those project that needs to be operationalised now. There is no point in having a building left vacant. It is now a building that will pass...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Properties (11 Jun 2024)

Cuireadh an Dáil ar athló ar 11.24 p.m. go dtí 9.10 a.m., Dé Céadaoin, an 12 Meitheamh 2024. The Dáil adjourned at at 11.24 p.m. until 9.10 a.m. on Wednesday, 12 June 2024.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Care Services (11 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Deputy and I take on board all that he said. I welcome the fact that the Taoiseach today, on the floor of the Dáil, committed that he is meeting Family Carers Ireland within the next two weeks to discuss the full report there. It is unfortunate that when the Deputy knocks on a door, he has the experience that people are unaware of the fabulous day-care services that are...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Properties (11 Jun 2024)

Departmental Properties

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Properties (11 Jun 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, for coming in this evening. It is appropriate that the Minister of State is here to answer this question as it was she and I who started on this saga nearly three years ago. It has been a long arduous three years, as I have said. The Minister of State will be aware of the property I am referring to here. The Minister of State visited it...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Properties (11 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Deputy for giving me this opportunity, and the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, for giving me the opportunity to take his question the response to which he has prepared, as it falls under the Department of Health. Out of respect to the Minister, I will read the response he has given me and then I will add my own commentary. I thank the Deputy for giving me the opportunity...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Properties (11 Jun 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: That is great. The Minister of State has provided me an answer tonight that, as she said, by the end of this week it will be formally done. After those many years, that is most welcome. I know that people listening in this evening will be delighted to hear that. As I said, the response is most welcome. Now that the Minister of State has delivered the news, I would like to see Cork City...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Care Services (11 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue and providing me with the opportunity to discuss the matter. As Minister of State with responsibility for disabilities, respite services for people with disabilities and their families are a key priority for me. In outlining his case, the Deputy correctly stated that not all of this falls under my remit. There is respite for older people as well....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Care Services (11 Jun 2024)

Robert Troy: I welcome the Minister of State's response. I do not for a minute doubt her commitment to this area. However, when we have situation where the State has made capital investments into respite houses and they are not being used 24-7, around the clock, it is simply inexcusable. Nobody should be able to stand over that. A mother of an adult child with a range of disabilities wrote: Robert,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Pensions (11 Jun 2024)

State Pensions

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Pensions (11 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 13. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she expects to examine the possibility of allowing pro rata pensions for those that currently have insufficient contributions to qualify; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25393/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Pensions (11 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: This question relates to an old bugbear of mine with the number of people who fall short of the necessary contributions due to a variety of circumstances, such as women who are spouses of self-employed people, where the Department does not always allow a partnership to exist in determining the eligibility for an insurance-based pension, and where people have a shortage of contributions in any...